As George Gamow put in his science-popularizing book, One, Two, Three ... Infinity ( 1947 ), " The metallic substances differ from all other materials by the fact that the outer shells of their atoms are bound rather loosely, and often let one of their electrons go free.

Coins are usually metal or a metallic material and sometimes made of synthetic materials, usually in the shape of a disc, and most often issued by a government.

It is the presence of dislocations and their ability to readily move ( and interact ) under the influence of stresses induced by external loads that leads to the characteristic malleability of metallic materials.

In this wider sense, glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers.

Different materials have different frictions and grip the yarn differently ; slick needles such as metallic needles are useful for swift knitting, whereas rougher needles such as bamboo offer more friction and are therefore less prone to dropping stitches.

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys.

Important elements of modern materials science are a product of the space race: the understanding and engineering of the metallic alloys, and silica and carbon materials, used in the construction of space vehicles enabling the exploration of space.

:* Crystallography, quantum chemistry or quantum physics, for the structure ( symmetry and defects ) and bonding in materials ( e. g., ionic, metallic, covalent, and van der Waals bonding )

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys.

One could call these materials metal compounds, but, because materials with metallic bonding are typically not molecular, Dalton's law of integral proportions is not valid and often a range of stoichiometric ratios can be achieved.

There are some materials like indium tin oxide ( ITO ) that are metallic conductors ( actually degenerate semiconductors ) for which this threshold is in the infrared, which is why they are transparent in the visible, but good mirrors in the IR.

Glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: inorganic networks ( such as window glass, made of silicate plus additives ), metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers.

Materials used include aida cloth, evenweave, and linen fabrics, in cotton, linen, and man-made materials combined in more and more ways ; and fibers from cotton floss to silk, rayon, viscose, and metallic.

Many terms refer to materials having similar lustres, such as earthy, metallic, greasy, and silky.

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* Cermet, a composite material composed of ceramic ( cer ) and metallic ( met ) materials

The field is an applied science, covering all aspects of the physical and chemical processes used to produce mineral-containing and metallic materials, sometimes for direct use as a finished product, but more often in a form that requires further physical processing which is generally the subject of physical metallurgy, ceramics, and other disciplines within the broad field of materials science.

The pyrochlore structure shows varied physical properties spanning electronic insulators ( e. g. La < sub > 2 </ sub > Zr < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 7 </ sub >), ionic conductors ( Gd < sub > 1. 9 </ sub > Ca < sub > 0. 1 </ sub > Ti < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 6. 9 </ sub >), metallic conductors ( Bi < sub > 2 </ sub > Ru < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 7-y </ sub >), mixed ionic and electronic conductors, spin ice systems ( Dy < sub > 2 </ sub > Ti < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 7 </ sub >), spin glass systems ( Y < sub > 2 </ sub > Mo < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 7 </ sub >), and superconducting materials ( Cd < sub > 2 </ sub > Re < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 7 </ sub >).

It can apply to both metallic and non-metallic materials, in the presence or absence of oxygen.

Cast iron and ductile iron pipe was long a lower-cost alternative to copper, before the advent of durable plastic materials but special non-conductive fittings must be used where transitions are to be made to other metallic pipes, except for terminal fittings, in order to avoid corrosion owing to electrochemical reactions between dissimilar metals ( see galvanic cell ).

Stirrups may also be made of synthetic materials and various metallic alloys.

`` If you substitute ' atom ' for ' angel ', the problem is not insoluble, given the metallic content of the pin in question ''.

The main use of metallic arsenic is for strengthening alloys of copper and especially lead ( for example, in car batteries ).

When molten antimony is slowly cooled, metallic antimony crystallizes in a trigonal cell, isomorphic with that of the gray allotrope of arsenic.

When scratched with a sharp implement, an exothermic reaction occurs and white fumes are given off as metallic antimony is formed ; when rubbed with a pestle in a mortar, a strong detonation occurs.

Black antimony is formed upon rapid cooling of vapor derived from metallic antimony.

Actinium is a soft, silvery-white, radioactive, metallic element.

Astatine is sometimes described as being a black solid ( assuming that it follows this trend ), or as having a metallic appearance ( if it is a metalloid or a metal ).

An alloy is a mixture or metallic solid solution composed of two or more elements.

The reaction is carried out under pressure at a temperature of 200 ° C in the presence of a metallic catalyst.

It is the fifth element in Group 2, a soft silvery metallic alkaline earth metal.

The atom is also the smallest entity that can be envisaged to retain the chemical properties of the element, such as electronegativity, ionization potential, preferred oxidation state ( s ), coordination number, and preferred types of bonds to form ( e. g., metallic, ionic, covalent ).

It is a silvery metallic element that must be extracted by electrolysis from a fused salt like calcium chloride.

Californium is a radioactive metallic chemical element with the symbol Cf and atomic number 98.

A few amalgams have been studied: is black with a purple metallic lustre, while CsHg is golden-coloured, also with a metallic lustre.

In continuum mechanics a body is considered stress-free if the only forces present are those inter-atomic forces ( ionic, metallic, and van der Waals forces ) required to hold the body together and to keep its shape in the absence of all external influences, including gravitational attraction.

A less often mentioned type of bonding is the metallic bond.

In some films, knitted string spray-painted with a metallic paint is used instead of actual mail in order to cut down on cost ( an example being Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which was filmed on a very small budget ).

Traditionally, liquid helium is used to cool the coils because it has a boiling point of around 4 K at ambient pressure, and cheap metallic superconductors can be used for the coil wiring.

The typical example is of two uncharged metallic plates in a vacuum, placed a few micrometers apart as in a capacitor but without any external electromagnetic field.

Pendry's initial idea was that metallic wires aligned along the direction of propagation could provide a metamaterial with negative permittivity ( ε < 0 ).